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15 The Ferment of Reform and Culture

15 The Ferment of Reform and Culture

Pregunta 1 de 30

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As embraced by many of the founding fathers; Deism:

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  • emphasized that a person's fate was predestined and known only by God.

  • was rooted in strict adherence to the Bible

  • celebrated God's hand in the daily workings of the world

  • stressed that God created the world but trusted the moral capacity of human beings to run it.

Explicación

Pregunta 2 de 30

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The Second Great Awakening reversed the trends toward religious indifference and rationalism of the late eighteenth century.

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  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 3 de 30

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Which of the following is NOT a true statement about the Second Great Awakening?

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  • It was a religious movement that led to the reorganization of many existing churches and the founding of new sects

  • It drew new converts from massive camp or revival meetings

  • It had its greatest appeal to men, who made up the majority of new religious adherents.

  • It inspired several reform movements

Explicación

Pregunta 4 de 30

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The Mormon church migrated to Utah to escape persecution and to establish a tightly organized cooperative social order without persecution.

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  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 5 de 30

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The term "Burned-Over District" refers to

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  • parts of western New York that were inundated with preachers lecturing hellfire and damnation.

  • factory districts in New England that were ravaged by fires in the early 1800s

  • sections of the frontier that were overwhelmed with multiple revivals

  • regions of New England that were overcrowded, overgrown, and increasingly run down.

Explicación

Pregunta 6 de 30

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Women achieved equality with men in higher education before the Civil War

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  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 7 de 30

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Two denominations that became the dominant faith among the common people of the West and South were:

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  • Lutherans and Catholics

  • Methodists and Baptists

  • Quakers and Seventh Day Adventists

  • Congregationalists and Unitarians

Explicación

Pregunta 8 de 30

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The major effect of the growing slavery controversy on the churches was

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  • a major missionary effort directed at converting African American slaves

  • the organization of the churches to lobby for the abolition of slavery.

  • an agreement to keep political issues like slavery out of the religious area

  • a split of Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians into separate northern and southern churches

Explicación

Pregunta 9 de 30

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Many early American reformers were middle-class idealists inspired by evangelical Protestantism.

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  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 10 de 30

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Who founded the Mormon religion (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints)?

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  • Brigham Young

  • Joseph Smith

  • Charles Finney

  • Peter Cartwright

Explicación

Pregunta 11 de 30

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The major promoter of an effective tax-supported system of free public education for all American children was

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  • Mary Lyons

  • Horace Mann

  • Noah Webster

  • Susan B. Anthony

Explicación

Pregunta 12 de 30

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The key role of women in American reform movements was supported by a growing "feminization" of the churches that spawned many efforts at social improvement

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  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 13 de 30

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Reformer Dorothea Dix worked for the cause of:

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  • women's right to higher education and voting

  • antislavery

  • better treatment of the mentally ill

  • temperance

Explicación

Pregunta 14 de 30

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Most early American communal experiments involved attempts to create a perfect society based on brotherly love and communal ownership of property

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  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 15 de 30

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One primary cause of women's subordination in nineteenth-century America was

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  • the cult of domesticity that sharply separated women's sphere of the home from that of men in the workplace

  • women's primary involvement in a host of causes other than that of their own rights

  • the prohibition against women's participation in religious activities

  • the widespread belief that women were morally inferior to men.

Explicación

Pregunta 16 de 30

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Why was there a lag in founding women's colleges and other secondary institutions until after the 1820s?

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  • Secondary education for women was against the law in many states.

  • People feared that education would make women unfit for marriage

  • There was discomfort with the idea of women and men in similar institutions.

  • Education women was against many religious principles

Explicación

Pregunta 17 de 30

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Although transcendentalism rejected most American materialism and focus on practical concerns, transcendentalism strongly reflected American individualism, love of liberty, and hostility to formal institutions and authority.

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  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 18 de 30

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What is the significance of Seneca Falls in 1848?

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  • The rise of the universal suffrage movement

  • The beginning of the abolition movement

  • The advent of the women's rights movement

  • The start of a dress reform crusade

Explicación

Pregunta 19 de 30

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Besides the hostility and ridicule it suffered from most men , the pre-Civil War women's movement failed to make large gains because?

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  • it was overshadowed by the larger and seemingly more urgent antislavery movement

  • women were unable to establish any effective organization to advance their cause.

  • most ordinary women could not see any advantage to gaining equal rights.

  • it became bogged down in pursuing trivial issues like changing women's fashions.

Explicación

Pregunta 20 de 30

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Most early American imaginative writers and historians came from the Midwest and the South

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  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 21 de 30

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Many of the American Utopian experiments of the early 19th century focused on:

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  • communal economics and alternative sexual arrangements

  • temperance and diet reforms

  • advanced scientific and technological ways of producing and consuming

  • doctrines of transcendental meditation

Explicación

Pregunta 22 de 30

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Which of the following were NOT among the many Utopian communities that sprang up in the early to mid-nineteenth century?

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  • Oneida

  • Brook Farm

  • Quakers

  • Shakers

  • New Harmony

Explicación

Pregunta 23 de 30

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Evangelical preachers like Charles Grandison Finney linked personal religious conversion to:

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  • the construction of large church buildings throughout the Midwest

  • the expansion of American political power across the continent

  • the Christian reform of social problems

  • the organization of effective economic development and industrialization.

Explicación

Pregunta 24 de 30

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The transcendentalist movement of the 1830s

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  • celebrated the power of the individual spirit

  • embraced the communal influences of the church and other institutions

  • put the greater good ahead of the individual's needs

  • argued that laws and government were the key to social order

Explicación

Pregunta 25 de 30

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Besides their practice of polygamy, the Mormans aroused hostility from many Americans because of:

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  • their cooperative economic practices that ran contrary to American economic individualism

  • the political ambitions of their leaders Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.

  • their populous settlement in Utah, which posed a threat of a break-away republic in the West

  • the efforts to convert members of other denominations to Mormonism.

Explicación

Pregunta 26 de 30

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The Seneca Falls Convention launched the modern women's rights movement with its call for:

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  • equal pay for equal work

  • an equal rights amendment to the Constitution

  • equal rights, including the right to vote

  • access to public education for women

Explicación

Pregunta 27 de 30

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Two leading female imaginative writers who added luster to New England's literary reputation were:

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  • Sarah Orne Jewett and Kate Chopin

  • Sarah Grimke and Susan B. Anthony

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe and Abigail Adams

  • Louisa May Alcott and Emily Dickinson

Explicación

Pregunta 28 de 30

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The transcendentalist writers such as Emerson, Thoreau, and Fuller stressed the idea of:

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  • inner truth and individual self-reliance

  • political community and economic progress

  • personal guilt and fear of death

  • love of chivalry and return to the medieval past

Explicación

Pregunta 29 de 30

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All of the following American authors celebrated the human potential for goodness and progress in their work EXCEPT:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Louisa May Alcott

  • Henry David Thoreau

  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • Edgar Allen Poe

Explicación

Pregunta 30 de 30

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Who is considered the "father of American history"

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • William Prescott

  • George Bancroft

  • Herman Melville

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